Catfish Hunter Sacrifice Hits

Catfish Hunter Career Sacrifice Hits Overview

During Catfish Hunter's 15-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 86 sacrifice hits, an average of 6 sacrifice hits per season. 1965 was his best season with 0 sacrifice hits and his worst season was 1972 when he had 15 sacrifice hits. Catfish Hunter underperformed similar player cohorts when comparing career totals, not beating USA (12.210312326742), The Silent Generation (13.978787878788), Y (46.638888888889), mlb (12.394540549119), and SP (15.62969588551) player career averages. See the charts and graphs below that visualize this information in more detail.

A sacrifice hit, often referred to a sacrifice bunt, is a ball put into play in the infield allowing a runner on the bases to advance one or more bases but results in the hitter being called out at or before first base. This is often an done intentionally to move runners forward with a weaker hitter at the plate, for example a pitcher. A pitcher is charged with a sacrifice hit when it happens a plate appearance for which they are pitching. Generally, for Sacrifice Hits, lower is better. (Source)

Catfish Hunter Lifetime Sacrifice Hits

Stats similar to Sacrifice Hits for Catfish Hunter

	Catfish Hunter Sacrifice Hits
Career	86
Season Avg.	6
162 Game Avg.	12
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Catfish Hunter Sacrifice Hits By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Catfish Hunter's yearly Sacrifice Hits for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Catfish Hunter Cumulative Sacrifice Hits by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Catfish Hunter's career Sacrifice Hits progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Catfish Hunter's career Sacrifice Hits at the end of that season.

Catfish Hunter Sacrifice Hits By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Catfish Hunter and related player groups by summarizing Sacrifice Hits for each season played by Catfish Hunter. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Catfish Hunter Sacrifice Hits Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Catfish Hunter Sacrifice Hits stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, SP, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Catfish Hunter career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.